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J. P. FOLEY. COMBINED BATH AND SHOWER APPARATUS.

Patented Aug. 4, 1896.

UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. FOLEY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO VILLIAIWIR. JEVELL, OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 565,408, dated August4, 1896.

Application tiled July 22, 1895.

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN F. FOLEY, a resident of Chicago, in the countyof Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in a Combined Bath and Shower Apparatus, of which thefollowing, when taken in connection with the drawings accompanying andforming a part hereof, is a full and complete description, sufficient toenable those skilled in the art to understand, make, and use the same.

The device embodying my invention relates to the class of articles usedin or with an ordinary bath-tub for the purpose of obtaining a betterand more thorough bath than can otherwise be obtained, or for moreeasily obtaining an ordinary bath; and the object of my invention is toobtain a device whereby, in an ordinary bath-tub, a bath known as aneedle or shower bath can be taken, a device whereby a thorough brushingor sponging of the back as well as of the front of the body can beeasily secured, with all the water desired, and as desired, supplied tothe brush or sponge, and a device whereby the water, either in a needle,shower, brush, or sponge bath, can be applied to any part of the body atthe will of the person bathing and in quantity as desired.

In the drawings referred to as forming a part of this specification,Figure l is an elevation of a person using the device embodying myinvention in connection with an ordinary bath-tub, showing such devicein elevation and the bath-tub in section; Fig. 2, a perspective view ofthe device embodying the invention with a short section of a rubber orother flexible-tube used in connection therewith and as a part thereofattached thereto; Fig. 3, a sectional view of the device on line 3 3 ofFig. 2, viewed in the direction indicated by the arrows, with a brushsecured thereto and forming a part thereof; and Fig. 4, a perspectiveview of the device embodying the invention with a sponge attachedthereto forming a part thereof.

A reference-letter applied to a given part is used to designate suchpart throughout the several figures of the drawings wherever the sameappears.

serial No. 556,687. (No man.)

A, Fig. l, is a section of a portion of a bathtub.

B is the faucet supplying water to the bathtub.

C is an elevation of a person standing in the bath-tub A and using inconnection therewith a device embodying my invention.

D is a hollow metal rod fitting into socket E and arranged to be securedin place in such socket, as by screw-threads dv d d on the hollow rod ortube D, iitting into corresponding screw-threads in the socket E.

F is a hollow rod or tube secured'at one end thereof to socket E andbent at the other end thereof to form the loop f.

G G G are hollow bars or tubes extending across the loop f and connectedto such loop, so that the liquid, as water, extending through the loop fmay pass into the hollow bars, respectively.

H H H are perforations or holes in the tube forming the loop f and inthe cross-tubes G G G, through which perforations or holes water willpass in the use of the device.

I is a handle on hollow rod or tube D, whereby the device can be readilymanipulated.

The hollow rods or tubes D F are formed into acircular shape, as is wellillustrated in Fig. l, to enable a person grasping the handle to apply abrush or sponge attached to the loop to the back, and also to enable onegrasping the handle to apply a needle or shower bath to the back, thatis, by holding the loop f a short distance from the back.

J is a iexible tube, as, say, of rubber, secured at one end to hollowrod or tube D and at the other end removably attached to faucet B. Theforce of the liquid, usually water, is determined, when the device isattached to faucet B, by the extent to which such faucet.

is opened.

g is a hole in cross-bar or cross-tube G', through which the bolt G2 maybe extended.

K, Fig. 3, is a brush which may be of any desired make; but to beadapted for use in connection with the hereinbefore-described deviceshould be of less width and shorter than is the loop f, so that Waterpassing from the perforations or holes H H H may extend IOO by the brushupon the person using the device, or at least on the bristles of thebrush.

L is a plate, Which I prefer to construct of metal, secured, as byscrews Z Z, to the back of the brush K and arranged to have ttedthereto, by means of a screw or otherwise, the bolt G2, thereby securingthe brush to the loop f.

M M M M, Fig. 4, are buttons or fasteners on the back of loop f, and N Nare elastic bands attached at the ends thereof, respectively, to buttonsor fasteners M M M M. Bands N N extend around the sponge O. To detachthe sponge O from the loop f of hollow rod or tube F, one end of thebands N N is unfastened from the buttons or fasteners M M M M.

The manner of using the device is as follows: Vhere a needle or showerbath is to be taken, the handle I is grasped, as is illustratcd in Fig.l, and, the brush K and sponge O being relnoved from the loop f, withflexible tube J, secured to the faucet of the batlrtub', the faucet isturned to admit Water through the device. The Water flowing through theperforations or holes II H can be directed against any part of the bodyby the person bathing, the manner of so directing such Water against theback being Well illustrated in Fig. 1. There a brush is to be used as apart of the device embodying my invention, such brush is secured to loopf, as hereinbefore set out, and the device used in substantially thesame Way as when a needle or shower bath is to be taken. Where a spongeis secured to the loop f, as illustrated in Fig. 4, Water passingthrough the flexible tube J, tube D, tube F, and perforation I-I II inloop j will be forced through the sponge.

The loop f With hollow bars G G G constitutes a supply-chamber for Waterdesigned to be supplied to and discharged from the perforations or holesH II.

To pack the device, tube D maybe detached from the socket E and flexibletube .I from faucet B.

I claim- I. The combination of tubes removably secured together7 one endof one of the tubes turned into a loop, connecting-tubes extending fromside to side of the loop, such loop and connecting tubes havingperforations Vthrough the Wall of the tubes on one face of the loop, ametal plate adapted to be secured to the back of a brush, and means forremovably securing the metal plate to one of the connecting-tubes, Witha flexible pipe secured to the end of the other tube; substantially asdescribed.

2. A combined rubbing and needle showerbath consisting of a bent hollowtube having at one end thereof a chamber formed by a loop of the benttube and hollow connectingtubes extending from side to side of the loop,such loop and connecting-tubes having perforations on one side or facethereof, a handle near one end of the bent tube, means for attaching aflexible tube adjacent to the handle on the bent tube, means forremovably attaching a metal plate, secured to a brush, to the loop, andbuttons on the back of the loop for securing a flexible cordtl1ereto,Whcre by such loop is arranged to have abrush and a spongealternately attached thereto; substantially as described.

FLORA L. BROWN, W'M. R. JEWELL.

